Interesting idea…., ya know if you hooked up a smaller altenator (say for a high end gokart) it would cause less resistance then a full sized car altenator, then u hook up a gear ratio on it [for example, u have a verry small gear 2-3" on the altenator, and then attached by a belt around the bike wheel thingy, for every one rotation on the bike wheel, you get many times that on the smaller gear, in-effect spinning it much faster then one is peddling.]
I would love to see if you try this lil R&D project, let us know if you end up doing it!
P.S. it seems like alot of the people commenting on this post solved most of the problems :S

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